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This novel is dedicated to one of Wallace's favourite pastimes, horse racing. It follows the rough neck Australian gambler Brian Pallard as he arrives in England to meet his distant relatives. Over the...
"Vive la counter-revolution!"In 'Sons of the Soil', Balzac tells an extraordinary story of gentry and peasants, complacency and corruption, jealousy and revenge. And it has a contentious central message:...
Theodora has, in many ways, a rich life. Many ways apart from the one that counts. She's got beauty and innocence in abundance, but when it comes to financial means, she sadly falls short. Luckily, a...
The imaginary Eastern European Kingdom of Theos is under threat from Russia and Turkey, who are both plotting its takeover. Theos must call on its exiled former King, Ughtred of Tyrnaus to return to the...
A buried corpse disappears. A child is kidnapped. A woman suddenly vanishes. The only clue - mysterious Chinese symbols; left behind at each of the crime scenes in a provincial town in Northern Denmark....
'The Man Who Bought London' follows the American King Kerry, an absurdly rich real estate tycoon who spends his time buying up swathes of London real estate to redevelop for the benefit of the poorer...
Intrigue, illusions, and insidious motives...Still recovering from testifying against her abuser, Chief Inspector Sara Vallén is called out to investigate a mysterious death in an idyllic allotment on...
'The Law of Four Just Men' follows a group of four wealthy vigilantes who hunt down evil that the law cannot reach for punishment. Where conventional justice fails these men will not. Using their vast...
'The Nine Bears' introduces us for the first time to the brilliant Scotland Yard Detective Elk, on assignment to track down some shady financiers causing havoc with the global markets. It is a plot worthy...
Why do good people suffer?This is the question Honoré de Balzac poses in 'The Hated Son', set in Normandy during the eighth war of religion between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots.The kind and gentle...
Written by Charles Willing Beale (1845-1932), 'The Secret of the Earth' (1899) is an intriguing lost-world tale. When Dirk Waaijen, the master of the Voorne, is five days out from the island of Celebes,...
'Samantha on the Woman Question' (1913) was written by best-selling American writer and humourist Marietta Holley and tells the story of Samantha and her husband Josiah as they attend a reunion of the...
As orphans Dell and Joel Wells faced starvation on the northeastern Kansas prairie during a hellish winter, their late father's dream was dying with them.But just as they get set to leave his claim on...
A coming-of-age novel, 'The Road to the Open' follows the complicated liaisons of composer, Baron Georg von Wergenthin. While a talented man, Wergenthin lacks motivation and, instead of working, prefers...
In this thriller, Wallace introduces us to John Lexman a formidable mystery writer who is lured in to a murder plot only to be betrayed and thrown in prison. Lexman's intrepid Detective friend T.X Meredith...
The fictional town of Tiverton is the centre of these short stories by Alice Brown. Tiverton is based in New England, like many of Brown's other works, and is home to traditional, American families in...
Kazan is three quarters husky and one quarter wolf, and struggles with these two sides of his personality. A part of him wants to stay with people, while the other wants to run free with the wolves. Furthermore,...
'The Spark' is the third of four books set in Old New York. When Hayley Delane discovers that there's more to his mentor than meets the eye, he realises that he needs to change his way of thinking. 'The...
What do you get if you cross a family of French acrobats with the escape of a Russian political prisoner? 'César Cascabel!'Despite the outlandish premise, Verne deftly weaves a story of intrigue, friendship,...
Set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, 'Micah Clarke' is an historical adventure story by the famous Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The son of a dedicated Protestant, Micah Clarke...
Another brilliant novel from the king of mystery ' A King by Night' is a signature turn for famed British author Edgar Wallace. A series of murders has left Scotland Yard puzzled, to solve this one they...
Set during the 'Seven Years War' between England and France, 'A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy' was one of Sterne's last works. Seen as the epilogue to his 'Tristram Shandy' books (later...
Felix was rejected as a child by his mother and those scars never fully heal.In a book with great emotional depth, Honore de Balzac explores Felix' two major adult relationships with women through the...
'The Serapion Brethren' is the name of a literary and social circle created in Berlin in 1818 by the German romantic writer E. T. A. Hoffmann and his friends.'The Serapion Brethren' is also the name of...
In 'The Wolf Leader,' Dumas deftly weaves the Faust story with the werewolves of folklore. While it is not the typical swashbuckling fare you would expect from the author of 'The Three Musketeers,' 'The...
The earliest collection of short stories from Edith Wharton, 'The Greater Inclination' documents the beginning of an outstanding literary career. The book contains seven short stories and one two-act...
The final story in Joyce's 'Dubliners' collection, 'The Dead' tells the story of Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta. While at a Christmas party hosted by his aunts, Gretta tells the story of Michael...
Now that he's turned 21, Lewis Raycie has been sent to travel Europe to form his tastes and fortify his judgments. Lewis' father packs him off with $5,000 and the instruction to return with art by Raphael....
War is looming as England is riven by a power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Into the chaos comes a fearsome figure, Norman of Torn, a warrior with a thirst for English blood.With...
Tense and atmospheric, 'The Touchstone' follows the trials and tribulations of New York lawyer, Stephen Glennard. When we meet Glennard, he is unable to afford to marry his girlfriend, Alexa Trent. However,...
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